Analysis of Plovers
Padraic Colum 1881 (County Longford) – 1972 (Enfield)
THE Plovers fly and cry around,
Unguided, nestless, without bourn,
Wandering and impetuous,
Turning and flying to return.
These wild birds seen on Ireland's ground
I name upon Hawaiian beaches
Estrayents, they, of all lands' ends,
They have the oceans for their reaches.
My thoughts are like the Plovers' flight,
Unguided, nestless, without bourn,
Wandering and impetuous,
Turning and flying to return.
| Scheme | aBCD aexe xBCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
| Metre | 01010101 11011 1000010 10010101 11111101 110101010 111111 110101110 11110101 11011 1000010 10010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 399 |
| Words | 64 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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